Globoconella inflata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GloboconellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 83 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
1,592 occurrences of Globoconella inflata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1,592 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eoceneunder 1%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene2%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene79%
- Holoceneunder 1%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Globoconella inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,589 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Globoconella inflata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Globoconella inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
273 taxa- Globigerinoides ruber193 sites
- Globigerina bulloides181 sites
- Orbulina universa170 sites
- Globorotalia (Hirsutella) scitula127 sites
- Globigerinita glutinata123 sites
- Trilobatus sacculifer116 sites
- Neogloboquadrina dutertrei114 sites
- Globigerinella siphonifera111 sites
- Globorotalia crassaformis103 sites
- Globorotalia (Menardella) menardii98 sites
- Globigerina falconensis97 sites
- Globorotalia (Globorotalia) tumida90 sites
- Pulleniatina obliquiloculata82 sites
- Neogloboquadrina incompta77 sites
- Globigerinoides conglobatus75 sites
- Globorotalia truncatulinoides74 sites
- Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) truncatulinoides70 sites
- Neogloboquadrina pachyderma68 sites
- Sphaeroidinella dehiscens68 sites
- Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula47 sites
- Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis47 sites
- Neogloboquadrina acostaensis47 sites
- Globigerinoides extremus44 sites
- Globorotalia39 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,585 sites for Globoconella inflata, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
82 references- Site U1352146
- Site U1389111
- Site U147995
- Site U138690
- Site U139189
- Site U147487
- Site U147582
- Site U147873
- Site U139062
- Site U138754
- Site U138553
- Site U143751
Each of the 1,592 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 70 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Globoconella inflata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- foraminarium
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGloboconella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1839)